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Good use of the ATMega chip and some floppy drives

Posted Wed, 10/05/2011 - 14:53 by bholmes

Some dude plays the Imperial March by varying the speed of floppy drive motors... Love the creativity

Done with Symantec

Posted Wed, 06/01/2011 - 15:42 by bholmes

Google has a sense of humor!

Posted Fri, 04/01/2011 - 17:35 by bholmes

This is either Google's awesome contribution to the online April Fool's tradition or a hilarious failure. Either way I laughed pretty hard. Thanks Rob for the link.

How do you get a job doing this?

Posted Tue, 03/29/2011 - 16:03 by bholmes

This is REALLY cool, but who the HECK has time for this sort of non-sense?

News Flash!

Posted Mon, 03/14/2011 - 15:48 by bholmes

News Flash for anyone who works in an environment that uses a corporate email system.

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Pretty gosh-darn simple

Posted Tue, 03/01/2011 - 14:45 by bholmes

More Arduino stuff. I was able to utilize the Parallax Ultrasonic Range Finder (radio shack $12 I think) to make LEDs illuminate based on an objects distance relative to the sensor.

Woah..

Posted Fri, 02/18/2011 - 17:59 by bholmes

Probably the coolest thing I've seen in a while. I now have a head ache, but it's well worth it.

Escher's Waterfall in real life.

Arduino PWM outputs

Posted Sun, 02/06/2011 - 22:28 by bholmes

So I'm playing with the PWM outputs on the Arduino now. Kind of neat stuff. I'm trying to figure out why my tri-color LEDs are acting all goofy.

Arduino rocks

Posted Wed, 01/26/2011 - 07:22 by bholmes

I'm pretty excited. This Arduino thing is pretty cool. A couple of hours and I've got a few useless but fun things working.